Top BBC executives denied ever having heard about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes despite Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman’s claim they were “common gossip”.

The BBC has launched a search for the next editor of Newsnight after the news and current affairs programme dropped a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades-long campaign of sexual abuse.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse is due to be released today.

The review into Newsnight’s shelving of a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades long campaign of sexual abuse will be released tomorrow.

Leaked emails suggest that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon played down the importance of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s alleged child abuse, saying the victims were “teenagers, not too young” and the abuse was not the “worst kind of sexual offences”.

A Newsnight reporter alleged that her editor tried to “kill” the Jimmy Savile story by making “impossible editorial demands” and saying the women who spoke out about the TV star were not too young at the time of the incidents.

The BBC is investigating up to 10 “serious allegations” involving past and present employees, director general George Entwistle said today.

BBC boss George Entwistle will be quizzed about the corporation’s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal by a committee of MPs today.

BBC Newsnight editor Peter Rippon has stepped aside after the corporation said his explanation of why the show dropped its investigation into the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal was “inaccurate or incomplete”.

'Newsnight' editor Peter Rippon is "stepping aside with immediate effect" while the BBC reviews its response to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the corporation said.

TV news anchorwoman Anne Doyle’s decision to take redundancy from RTÉ has provoked much in the way of public comment.

Angela Rippon and Nadia Sawalha’s skating skills failed to impress as they became the first celebrities to leave the qualifying rounds of the new series of 'Dancing On Ice'.

Kerry Katona said training for the latest series of 'Dancing On Ice' has been “complete therapy” – despite spraining her ribs on the rink.

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